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  • Guwahati civic polls: BJP, AAP bag one ward every, counting underway

    By way of PTI

    GUWAHATI: The BJP and the Aam Aadmi Celebration bagged one ward every up to now within the Guwahati Municipal Company, as counting of votes for polls to the civic frame commenced on Sunday.

    The elections have been held in 57 wards of the GMC on Friday, whilst in 3 wards, BJP applicants have been declared elected unopposed previous.

    As in line with data equipped by means of the Kamrup Metropolitan district management, the BJP has gained in Ward Quantity 41, whilst AAP clinched Ward Quantity 42.

    The BJP was once main in 3 extra wards until 11 am, Assam State Election Fee (ASEC) knowledge confirmed.

    Altogether, 52.80 in line with cent voter turnout was once registered with EVMs used for balloting in all polling stations for the primary time in GMC elections.

    As many as 197 applicants are in fray.

    The BJP had fielded nominees in 53 seats, out of which 3 have been elected uncontested.

    The saffron birthday party’s best friend within the ruling coalition at Dispur, the Asom Gana Parishad, is contesting in seven wards.

    The Congress has applicants in 54 wards, AAP in 38, Assam Jatiya Parishad in 25 and CPI(M) in 4.

    Nineteen others, together with Independents, also are in rivalry.

  • Assault on me backed by means of Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha govt: Kirit Somaiya

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: An afternoon after Shiv Sena supporters hurled sneakers and water bottles on the SUV of former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya out of doors Khar police station in Mumbai, the chief on Sunday claimed the assault was once “backed” by means of the Uddhav Thackeray govt in Maharashtra.

    Somaiya had long past to the police station on Saturday to satisfy arrested unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana, whose previous name for chanting Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Maharashtra Leader Minister and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s place of dwelling ‘Matoshree’ had angered the Sena cadres.

    Speaking to newshounds right here on Sunday, Somaiya claimed, ‘The assault on me was once backed by means of the Uddhav Thackeray govt. Some 70-80 Shiv Sena employees had collected on the gate of Khar police station once I visited it.”

    “I had individually knowledgeable police that I may well be attacked by means of Shiv Sena goons and it later took place,” he stated.

    The BJP chief claimed {that a} false FIR was once registered by means of police in his title. “Such false FIR can best be registered within the regime of Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray. He and Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey are at the back of it,” Somaiya additional claimed and demanded that Pandey get replaced in an instant.

    Somaiya additionally stated he’s going to move to New Delhi and meet Union house secretary in reference to the case. The BJP chief had on Saturday tweeted that he was once injured within the assault by means of “Shiv Sena goons”.

    Somaiya reached the Khar police station overdue night in make stronger of Amravati MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana who had been arrested previous within the day at the price of “developing enmity between other teams”.

    Shiv Sena supporters, who had collected out of doors the police station, protested in opposition to Somaiya’s talk over with and shouted slogans.

    Whilst the BJP chief was once leaving the police station within the SUV, a bunch of protesters hurled sneakers and water bottles at his car. Somaiya then travelled to the Bandra police station to document a grievance in opposition to Sena supporters.

  • Trinamool Congress to ship truth locating workforce to Prayagraj after brutal homicide of circle of relatives

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Saturday stated a truth locating workforce of the celebration will talk over with Prayagraj, scene of the killing of 5 individuals of a circle of relatives. “A five-member truth locating workforce will talk over with Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) the next day (Sunday) the place 5 individuals of a circle of relatives had been brutally murdered and later their area used to be set on fireplace,” a commentary through Trinamool Congress mentioned.

    The TMC delegation to Prayagraj incorporates Dola Sen, Mamata Bala Thakur, Saket Gokhale, Uma Soren and Lalitesh Tripathi. The TMC had despatched a fact-finding workforce to Jahangirpuri house in Delhi, which used to be rocked through communal violence just lately.

    Its choice to ship the fact-finding workforce to Jahangirpuri and Prayagraj comes days after BJP despatched an identical groups to Bogtui in Birbhum district the place 9 other folks had been burnt alive, and to Hanshkhali in Nadia district the place a minor lady died after she used to be allegedly gang-raped.

    Previous within the day, senior TMC chief Chandrima Bhattacharya questioned at a press convention why Top Minister Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah are silent over the “grotesque homicide” in Prayagraj.

    “That is the good thing about double engine govt (similar celebration in energy at Centre and State)” she slammed. Alleging that there’s lawlessness and “goondaraj” in Uttar Pradesh below BJP, Bhattacharya, who’s a minister within the Mamata Banerjee cupboard, stated everyone seems to be unsafe there.

    The accountable isn’t arrested and truth locating groups of alternative events are stopped from going to the web page below BJP rule. “However we do not forestall somebody from going to anyplace they would like in our state (Bengal). Right here lies the adaptation,’ she stated and ridiculed BJP for hard imposition of President’s Rule after the Bogtui violence.

    “We have now noticed how leaders of a few events visited one incident web page in West Bengal and demanded imposition of Article 356. We have now noticed the BJP best management dropping no time in sending truth locating groups. Why is not any truth locating workforce noticed in Prayagraj now?” Bhattacharya stated in line with the new data of NCRB, NHRC and world our bodies Uttar Pradesh tops the checklist within the selection of assaults on girls and youngsters.

    “Previous this month 4 individuals of a circle of relatives had been discovered murdered in Nawabganj house of UP. One after every other violent incidents are going down in UP the place lawlessness prevails. However our BJP leaders have not discovered time to sentence these items. What is going to the top minister and union house minister say about those incidents in UP?” she stated.

    The TMC chief stated in West Bengal the Mamata Banerjee govt takes speedy motion after any violent incident, investigates and extends all lend a hand to the affected.

    Echoing Bhattacharya, every other senior TMC chief Shashi Panja tweeted “Lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh is a rising drawback. Obviously, it stays unchecked through the @BJP4UP govt. From girls to kids, everyone seems to be unsafe below Yogi’s watch! #DoubleEngineDisaster.”

    Lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh is a rising drawback. Obviously, it stays unchecked through the @BJP4UP govt.

    From girls to kids, EVERYONE IS UNSAFE below Yogi’s watch!#DoubleEngineDisaster https://t.co/0JyZP12qbH

    — Dr. Shashi Panja (@DrShashiPanja) April 23, 2022

    BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya stated the Yogi Adityanath govt is already operating to position the culprits in the back of bars. “No complicity of the BJP individuals or supporters has been discovered within the incident, in contrast to in Bogtui or previous incidents in Bengal the place TMC used to be the primary accused. And if the TMC needs to ship factfinding groups to Prayagraj who’s fighting them? They’re this kind of large all India celebration,” he mocked.

    5 individuals of a circle of relatives, together with a two-year-old lady kid had been killed at Khevrajpur village in Prayagraj district on Friday evening. Police discovered the male head of the home, his spouse, daughter, daughter-in-law, and grand daughter lifeless on early Saturday morning.

    Whilst Samajwadi Birthday party attacked the BJP govt pronouncing Uttar Pradesh is “immersed in crime”, BSP leader Mayawati demanded an intensive probe into the incident.

  • ‘Painful, embarrassing for Maharashtra’: BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis decries arrest of Rana couple

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday referred to as the arrest of MP Navneet Rana and her husband and MLA Ravi Rana by way of Mumbai Police “painful” and “embarrassing” for Maharashtra.

    He additionally stated the police didn’t act when a pacesetter of the ruling Shiv Sena made threatening statements or the automobile of a BJP chief was once attacked, however arrested the Ranas after they arrived in Mumbai to recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s space.

    In a chain of tweets, Fadnavis stated, “The incidents in Maharashtra are painful. No FIR was once filed when Mohit Kamboj’s automobile was once attacked or when a pacesetter talks about burying a lady consultant 20 toes below the bottom. But if the Rana couple involves Mumbai to recite Hanuman Chalisa, they’re straight away arrested.”

    इतकी दंडुकेशाही 
    इतका अहंकार
    इतका द्वेष
    सत्तेचा इतका माज
    सरकारच करणार हिंसाचार
    एवढीच तुमची मदुर्मक

    सत्तेच्या मस्तीत कसेही वागून घ्या
    पण, जनता सारे काही पाहते आहे !
    निव्वळ लज्जास्पद

    लोकशाहीत मत मांडण्याचा अधिकार संपला?
    लोकशाहीचे गार्‍हाणे गाणारे आज सोयीस्कर गप्प का?

    — Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) April 23, 2022

    Kamboj, a Mumbai BJP chief, had claimed on Friday that his automotive was once attacked close to Matoshree, Leader Minister Thackeray’s non-public place of abode. Sena chief Raut stated previous on Saturday, with out naming anyone, that any one who attempted to check the persistence of his birthday celebration could be “buried 20 toes underneath the earth”.

    “Why is there such a lot conceitedness of energy? It’s the state govt this is instigating violence. Is your manhood restricted to such behaviour,” Fadnavis, a former leader minister tweeted. “It’s an utter embarrassment for the state to witness this type of deficient display. All this is going on sooner than the folks,” he added.

    He additionally requested if the arrest indicated that “other folks have misplaced their proper to specific their perspectives”, and why those that talk about democratic values have been “selectively silent”. Previous within the day, talking in Nagpur, Fadnavis stated the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra govt’s means of dealing with all of the episode was once “very infantile”.

    “If allowed, the Rana couple would have long gone there (Matoshree), recited Hanuman Chalisa and returned with out developing any information. I do not perceive why such a lot of other folks had collected at a number of puts as though they (Rana couple) have been making plans some assault. What sort of politics is that this?” the BJP chief stated.

    Mumbai Police on Saturday night time arrested MLA Ravi Rana and his spouse, MP Navneet Rana, each Impartial legislators from jap Maharashtra, for allegedly “developing enmity between other teams” after escorting them out in their space in suburban Khar amid top drama.

    The advance got here hours after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of abode ‘Matoshree’ right here.

  • Congress-BJP blame sport over temple demolition in Alwar

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    JAIPUR:  Politics has heated up within the wilderness state after a bulldozer was once run over a temple throughout an anti-encroachment power in Alwar district. Whilst the BJP stated the state’s ruling Congress was once doing “revenge politics”, the latter retaliated by way of mentioning that the temple demolition was once initiated by way of a BJP-ruled municipality board.

    The Rajgarh management claimed that motion was once taken to take away encroachments in line with the city’s grasp plan. In line with earnings information, there was once a highway of about 60 ft however now it isn’t even 25-foot-wide. Over time, there were numerous encroachments, the city management stated. 

    In the meantime, Hindu organisations accused Congress MLA  Johri Lal Meena, SDM Keshav Kumar Meena and EO Banwari Lal Meena of collusion to demolish the temple. They alleged the police didn’t record an FIR in spite of their grievance. 

    Whilst the chairman of the municipality board stated the motion was once taken on the stage of the management, native officers claimed a solution to transparent the encroachment was once handed by way of the municipality. A video of MLA Meena goes viral on social media. Within the video, he’s noticed telling those who that they had elected a BJP board and that was once why the demolition took place. He claimed within the video that 34 councillors of the BJP gave their consent to take away the encroachments whilst the Congress had just one councillor.

    District Collector Nakate Shivprasad stated the verdict to absorb the demolition power was once made unanimously in the second one assembly of the newly elected Municipality Board. “Motion was once taken on two 
    temples. One temple, which was once constructed lately, was once status on best of an present drain. The idols put in within the non-public temple constructed over the drain had been taken away by way of the temple government themselves ahead of the encroachment was once got rid of. Just a negligible a part of the second one temple was once demolished,” the collector stated.

  • Alwar temple demolition pressure: Congress, BJP business fees in Rajasthan

    Alwar's BJP MP Balaknath alleged that the idols at one of the crucial temples too had been broken within the demolition early this week.

  • AAP launches national survey searching for other folks’s opinion on itself, BJP 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Projecting itself because the lone selection to the BJP, the AAP on Thursday introduced a national survey searching for other folks’s opinion at the two events.

    Addressing a press convention on the birthday party headquarters right here, Aam Aadmi Celebration chief Atishi stated the survey is being carried out as “the rustic has best two choices left these days”.

    This comes amid the continuing disagreement between the AAP and the BJP which started after the latter felicitated 8 Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists following their unencumber on bail in a case associated with the alleged assault at Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s place of abode on March 30.

    The slugfest between the 2 events intensified after violent clashes broke between two communities throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri space final week.

    Saying the release of the survey, Atishi stated the opinion of other folks from around the nation will probably be gathered thru Interactive Voice Reaction Device (IVRS) calls, neglected calls and social media.

    In Delhi, the birthday party may even submit posters about its survey at more than a few places, the Kalkaji MLA stated. “Violence engineered via the Bharatiya Janata Celebration or name it the Bharatiya Goonda Celebration has unfold in every single place the rustic,” Atishi stated.

    In view of this, she stated, the birthday party has introduced a survey, searching for other folks’s opinion concerning the BJP and the AAP as “the rustic is left with best two choices these days”, she stated. The primary possibility is the BJP, which is “engaged in engineering violence and riots and indulging in hooliganism”.

    The second one is the AAP, which is “a birthday party which opens colleges, hospitals, supplies loose electrical energy, loose water in addition to facilitates bus rides for ladies, pilgrimage for the aged.” As a part of the survey, Atishi stated, other folks will probably be requested best two questions and they are able to resolution with a sure or no.

    “The primary query to other folks will probably be whether or not they consider that the BJP has develop into a birthday party of goons and loafers, and that it’s only engaged in orchestrating violence and riots,” she stated. “And the second one query will probably be concerning the AAP, which is a celebration of respectable, trained, staunch patriots and fair other folks,” she added.

    Requested if the BJP’s sturdy appearing within the Meeting polls in 4 states was once now not a sign of other folks’s opinion about it, Atishi stated there was a transparent upward push in incidents of hooliganism after the election effects. “The average guy is fed with this hooliganism,” she stated.

    Using prime on its stupendous victory within the Punjab Meeting polls, the AAP goes all out with its nationwide enlargement plan.

    Whilst the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party is gearing as much as contest on all seats within the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Meeting polls due later this 12 months, it has reorganised its gadgets in different states and introduced a large club force.

  • Won’t shape alliance with Shiv Sena in long term: BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday mentioned his celebration won’t shape an alliance with the Shiv Sena — its former best friend — in long term. Talking throughout his celebration’s ‘Ballot Khol’ marketing campaign in opposition to the Shiv Sena which controls the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), he mentioned that the BJP will now divulge the Sena’s “corruption” within the civic frame.

    “BJP won’t forge any alliance in long term with Shiv Sena to score energy. We’re right here now to show Sena’s corrupt practices in BMC,” Mungantiwar mentioned. Shiv Sena and BJP, allies for many years, fell out over the executive minister’s put up after the 2019 Maharashtra Meeting elections.

  • PM Narendra Modi has grew to become BJP’s ideology into truth: Former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

    Through PTI

    PUNE: Former Maharashtra leader minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday stated High Minister Narendra Modi grew to become the ideology of the BJP into truth, including the PM all the time informed leaders and employees that the birthday celebration used to be now not a device to simply win elections.

    Talking at a e book unlock match right here, the senior BJP chief stated that successful polls used to be a part of the birthday celebration’s functioning because it had followed democracy. “Modiji all the time tells us we (BJP) don’t seem to be a device to simply win elections. Profitable polls is a part of our functioning as we now have followed democracy. In a democracy, to result in exchange, we will be able to must win elections. The PM introduced the similar idea into truth and confirmed it may be accomplished,” Fadnavis stated.

    He stated former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had shaped a coalition govt with 22 events with a commonplace minimal programme that didn’t have problems like revoking of Article 370, Ram Temple. Vajpayee on the time had stated the CMP used to be of a coalition and those problems could be there if it used to be a central authority of the BJP, Fadnavis stated.

    When Modi was PM, he made most of these problems a truth, the previous leader minister added. “In true sense, PM Modi confirmed the ideology or considered a birthday celebration may also be introduced into truth by means of executing the exchange,” Fadnavis claimed.

    He added that India underwent a “decade of deterioration” between 2004 and 2014 below the Congress-led UPA govt, whilst below the management of Modi, the rustic effectively fought the COVID-19 pandemic and administered vaccines to its 125 crore inhabitants or even exported it to 50 international locations.

    Amid the Russia-Ukraine warfare, the Exterior Affairs Minister informed the sector, and USA particularly, that India used to be eager about its pursuits first. Even Russia believes PM Modi is most suitable to mediate to prevent the existing warfare, he stated.

    He additionally launched a e book at the lifetime of Prof Na Sa Pharande, overdue chairman of Maharashtra Legislative Council at some other match. “Samrasta or hamrony is our way of life however we politicians generally tend to go for social engineering. Alternatively, I imagine simplest the BJP is the use of the trail of samrasta. In different events, leaders are introduced ahead within the identify of social engineering whilst choices are taken by means of anyone sitting in Delhi,” he claimed.

  • Will Ram Navami processions be taken out in Pakistan, asks Union minister Giriraj Singh

    Via PTI

    KATIHAR (Bihar): Union minister Giriraj Singh has alleged that the hot assaults on Ram Navami processions at a variety of puts around the nation flew within the face of the “claims of Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb” (composite tradition of India).

    The firebrand BJP chief stated the rustic didn’t object to the development of recent mosques post-Independence and “multifold upward thrust within the inhabitants of Muslims” within the nation regardless of large-scale demolition of temples in Pakistan the place Hindus confronted near-extinction, and warned that “now, endurance is operating out”.

    Singh made the provocative remarks whilst speaking to journalists on this north Bihar district overdue Monday night time.

    He was once venting his spleen over remarks of AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi and “secular politicians with Jinnah’s DNA” that Hindus must steer clear of venturing into Muslim-dominated localities to steer clear of communal flare-ups whilst disposing of spiritual processions.

    “The place will Ram Navami processions taken out if no longer on this nation? In Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan? Had processions of some other religion been attacked leaders like Rahul Gandhi and the unwell (RJD president) Lalu Prasad would have hit the streets for his or her political tourism,” stated the Union minister who stays in information for his acerbic utterances.

    Singh, the MP from Bihar’s Begusarai, expressed outrage over incidents like assaults on police officers at Hubli in Karnataka and at Jahangirpuri in Delhi that have witnessed communal violence not too long ago.

    He stated he was once aghast on the incident in Gorakhpur the place an IIT graduate charged into the Gorakhdham peeth, a spiritual establishment headed by means of Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath, and attacked safety team of workers ahead of getting arrested and booked below the UAPA.

    “The rustic was once partitioned in 1947. We should no longer devote the similar mistake once more by means of speaking relating to Hindu-dominated or Muslim-dominated spaces. Do not Hindus heartily participate in Tazia processions right through Muharram,” Singh requested.